Splunk Administrator

Title: Splunk Administrator
Location: San Jose, CA or Raleigh, NC
Type: Full-Time

Required Skills/Experience:
This requirement is to build and optimize a large-scale Splunk infrastructure. This person won’t necessarily be building customer-facing searches / widgets.  Instead, the candidate will be focused on the backend infrastructure required to enable that capability.
•    Strong understanding of Splunk architecture requirements for scalability, security, and performance
•    Experienced with Splunk administration including index management, configuration files, user and role access
•    Previous experience building and maintaining Splunk components (indexer, forwarder, search head)
•    Familiar with integrating external data inputs including Syslog, SNMP, and REST API.
•    Strong knowledge of Splunk best practices (apps, add-ons, searches, etc.)
•    Experience with Linux (RHEL and Ubuntu)
•    Familiar with server monitoring tools like Nagios
•    Experience in building visualizations, specifically around infrastructure and performance
•    Experience deploying Splunk in virtualized environments such as OpenStack, VMware or AWS is a plus
•    Ability to effectively document solution deployments and train colleagues
•    Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience